Newborn baby miraculously survives being thrown from 5th floor balcony

By Dave Andrusko Of all the amazing survival stories of abandoned newborns, this must rank near the top. The Daily Mail of London reported today that a baby boy survived being thrown off a fifth floor balcony. How could that be even possible? He landed on banana leaves in an orchard behind the flats in …

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One-day abandoned newborn nearly tossed into garbage truck

‘Angels are watching over him,’ nurse tells newspaper By Dave Andrusko First the good, good news. A one-day-old abandoned baby found hanging in a plastic bag from a fence in the Philippines by a trash man on Monday is alive, according to the Daily Mail. Several people have already stepped forward to adopt the baby …

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Abandoned newborn rescued “just in time”

Survived naked, six feet underground in storm water drain in a colony of stinging red ants By Dave Andrusko When abandoned newborns are found alive, the first and perfectly understandable reaction is to call their rescue a miracle. But if you can categorize miracles, what happened April 3 would have to rank at the top. …

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Michigan mother of abandoned newborn charged with child abandonment and child abuse

  By Dave Andrusko Last week a teen mother who abandoned her newborn on the side of a dirt road in rural Michigan was charged in juvenile court with one count of child abandonment and one count of second-degree child abuse. Thanks to alert neighbors the baby was discovered within hours and suffered only superficial …

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